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SUBMITTER: Ramachandran S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1933596 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ramachandran Srinivasan S Xie Lai-Hua LH John Scott A SA Subramaniam Shankar S Lal Ratnesh R
PloS one 20070808 8
Oxidative stress is linked to many pathological conditions, including ischemia, atherosclerosis and neurodegenerative disorders. The molecular mechanisms of oxidative stress induced pathophysiology and cell death are currently poorly understood. Our present work demonstrates that oxidative stress induced by reactive oxygen species and cigarette smoke extract depolarize the cell membrane and open connexin hemichannels. Under oxidative stress, connexin expression and connexin silencing resulted in ...[more]